President Trump signed a new spending bill into law on October 1st increasing the Department of Education’s budget to $71.5 billion for fiscal year 2019. The bill includes an increase of $100 million for special education. For more information about the law, visit EdWeek’s K-12 Politics blog at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2018/10/donald-trump-education-spending-increase-second-straight-year.html.